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the whole point of VR is to transport you to other universes but that's pretty

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hard to do when getting sucked back into this one is as easy

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as that's the problem virtuix has been trying to solve since they first invited

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me to their Seattle hotel room to show me their

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prototype 11 years ago like before Luke

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was called Luke now the road's been a little bumpy after a successful

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Kickstarter campaign that finally delivered the original Omni to their

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backers years behind schedule virtuix

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immediately abandoned their efforts to build a consumer-friendly version and

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pivoted to working with commercial operators like dve and Busters instead

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but now they are back with a revamped

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version for end users dubbed the Omni

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one it's again a few years behind

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schedule but they made it and as someone who has

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made his fair share of years late products I gotta say I'm proud of him

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for getting it across the Finish Line the only question is in a world where

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not even Apple can get people excited about VR does anyone still

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lt20 I got to say after my first go

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through it is way better than the last

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time I tried this now obviously this is

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not a perfect solution by any stretch of the imagination

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but compared to every solution that I've seen before you know using your joystick

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to point you or being in a very confined space or investing in an entire room

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with motion tracking paint lines all over it and the game is designed to make

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sure that you don't accidentally run yourself into a

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wall if you want mobility in

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VR and you don't mind paying in sweat I

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was in there for 8 minutes and more importantly I want to go back in in but

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first let's take a step back the Omni

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one comes in two very heavy boxes but aside from the weight it is surprisingly

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easy and intuitive to set up and take apart which shows their experience as a

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B2B Solutions provider slide some things till they click and you've got this a

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bowl which we'll look at more closely in a moment and a kind of weird arm the

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harness thing the arm is height adjustable from 4 4' 4 in to 6'4 in and

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the bull can handle up to 250 lb which

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yes includes jumping on it overall the thing

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feels shockingly quality for something that was at a science fair project grade

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the last time that I saw it the arm articulates in three places and rotates

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around the base locking and unlocking with this button right here there's a

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knob up here that controls tension and for a beginner of my weight they

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recommend setting the tension to three this affects how much it supports you

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versus how much it gives you free movement as for how it holds you up the

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Omni One uses more of a backpack like system with a waist strap chest strap

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and two shoulder straps that provide a shockingly robust and safe feeling level

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of support it can also be pulled apart and even have the stuffing removed for

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cleaning which uh it'll need the base

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has wheels for rolling it around and the step conceals a little storage

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compartment for any accessories you might need like I don't know what is

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this a scrubby pad for the dish they recommend cleaning this every single

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time before you use it not with the scrubby Pad but with a microfiber cloth

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that they included they also have a monthly maintenance requirement where

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you take a little bit of oil or something that they've included and you

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wipe it down with that scrubby pad enough jibber jabber though I want to

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play whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa you need your shoe covers first oh right and

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while you figure those out let's talk talk about the headset because it's not

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BYO the Pico 4E is the Enterprise version of the Pico 4 from bite dance

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yes that bite dance it's not the newest version of this headset that would go to

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the four Ultra so this is more of a Quest 2 competitor which is to say it's

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still a great headset it comes with a Snapdragon xr2 s so 8 GB of RAM with 256

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GB of storage each ey gets a crisp 2160 X 2160 resolution resulting in a 105°

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field of view that refreshes it up to 90 HZ and looks great on the pancake lenses

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the headset also features a full color 16 megap pass through camera as well as

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ey and face tracking cameras something you won't find in the non-enterprise

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version it comes with two controllers that can be summarized as copying meta's

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homework and it comes in at 899 bucks

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which is pretty expensive compared to the 400ish pico4 we say 400ish because

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you can't get the pico4 direct in North America because of Tik Tok versus USA

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type problems so why did the company go with the Enterprise version well because

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they can put their own custom OS on this one and that might be related as well to

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those Tik Tok problems that we talked about earlier but here's a quick summary

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of what that means for you it means that everything works very smoothly with the

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treadmill but the OS and more importantly the games Library are

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limited so it's going to come down to how good that game library is well I've

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got my shoes figured out I settled on the medium size and it's pretty

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intuitive it just straps on a little something like that straps over the top

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a little something like that and this is cool they actually got this little

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flippy thing on the bottom so you can have your grip and also your slip oh and

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at the top there's these little clips for the foot

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trackers ah appropriately the tutorial is called

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First Steps okay he's unlocked

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boys let's go buddy hey look there's another one this

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is exactly the kind of home that I would imagine somebody having the space for

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one of these to

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have I am not walking let's just reboot

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it because uh there's some wonkiness sometimes with their software okay dude

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I'm sweating we have a tail yeah and and

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another shirt LTT Store.com okay now

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it's working let's go woo okay and if you try running you

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will go faster

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no this way here we go let's go can I

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just play a game now is this Co-op yeah so a lot of the games that come with the

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Omni are what virtuix would put in their Omni Arena their like arcade game stuff

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so this would be like oh you'd have four of your friends and you'd go to the

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arcade and you'd all play this game together sick you can play online though

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the um install base isn't very big right now I cannot not make the leaderboard

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here there's four players on the leaderboard one of which is virtuix Dev

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cam one all right let's go

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boys see you would think when you step

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you know that you move that direction but the direction is actually determined

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by the arm o

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hello all right let's go whoa hi there

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whoa hey oh hey h boom boom get out of

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here get out of here get go on go on get you

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got to escape the toxic area get out of the toxic get out of the toxic area dang

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it okay safe Zone here we go here we go

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I am freaking sweating brother whoa okay oh you okay oh yeah

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it's a flawed solution to a problem with

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no perfect solution you know what I mean like I fell off at once already

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which is not the best endorsement what's my where the heck is the rest of my oh

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my God jeez he throw stuff at you this

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is ridiculous but I think oh

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boy come on come on come on bring it on

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Juggernaut whoa come on go back the

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responsiveness definitely leaves a little bit to be

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desired extraction Zone

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I survived I noticed this is not the

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world's best headset I actually got a little bit of nausea just walking around

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using p through in it before but as soon

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as I got into that zombie experience before I forgot about the nausea all

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right what am I trying now hyper blast you're playing hyper blast hyper blast

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Gauntlet of Champions you need to set a

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time cuz we're going to have staff members try and beat it woo he's going

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bronze what do you mean bronze

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B this is freaking hard checkpoint here

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we go silver oh

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God okay oh man oh my

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God 9,300 points new high score let's go

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you're 31st in the world you're

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only you're only 21 behind circumference okay one more try one more

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try here we go I got this off to a good

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start come on get over here boy no I'm

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fine looking pretty good going for gold come

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on where you at checkpoint boom silver

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God 13,000 points yo is that enough to beat circumference oh dang it he's

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beating you by a thousand if there's one thing you can expect from lus it's

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getting too into a game too competitive

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I'm tempted to do another run but when I say run I mean it kind of literally this

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thing's freaking tiring yeah let's talk about that it's more difficult to walk

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on the Omni for three reasons since you're always placing your foot up on

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the lip you're always walking uphill and

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in real life when you're walking around you're basically just falling forward

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and catching yourself and you use that momentum from one step to the next you

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don't have any momentum on this thing cuz you're not actually moving and the

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other part is that there's friction there's a lot less effort required to

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move your foot through the air compared to dragging it on a Surface even if they

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do come with those slippy shoes so you end up getting really tired just doing

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the basic activity oh before you take it off I just want to try something this

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base is only 150 lb yeah can you like

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Yeet hard enough that it's going to tip like how stable is it like just try like

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jumping off in a

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direction I'd say you'd have to have a pretty strong intent yeah you

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accidentally remove yourself from this thing you know like yeah good to know I

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just want to check that because we're going to get a bunch of different staff to try it out oh cool yeah reys uh he's

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a tall boy and I wanted to see what do you mean I think you were like 90th

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percentile in height how tall are you Maria Why 55 CM do the math yeah Ed yeah

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I'm a little nervous I am 70 lbs over what this should hold yeah this Tech is

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rated to support 250 lbs Alex's own which means I am 320 lb well um for

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those math fans out there technically it's out of spec but uh you're over

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speced for this machine is the issue how much experience do you have with VR I

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own a quest 3 you own a quest do you use it a lot or fair amount okay cool what

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what kind of games do you play fun games I own a br at home meta

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Quest um I had the CV one oh wow and

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then it ended there oh my God okay this

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feels so normal oh my God oh my

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God oh my God this is so

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difficult that didn't feel good at all I

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feel a lot of pressure like from the

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thing like that pulls me backwards

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you're going to try and run through a level as fast as you can we're going to do the first level

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you're doing great I feel like

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it honestly the Tiny Steps seem to be making you faster than the bigger

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steps go go go okay you're doing

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great yeah they're pulling towards the side it's so difficult oh my God 8,400

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points is that good no 13,000 yeah I forget that yeah you did it oh my God no

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you did not get the best score of course sorry you could try again if you want I

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feel if I go again I will throw up

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reality is so much better there go yeah

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okay how did somebody get so many points so what are your impressions how did

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that feel my feet hurt I don't know why the experience was

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very difficult for me because of the pulling yeah I'm tired

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those Tiny Steps are you know like I'm I'm already I'm obviously out of shape

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but this is really awkward it looks very

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and also it feels like I'm going to fall forward it didn't seem like it was

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struggling at all with me with some of like your size so like that's great to

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see do you want to know how much it costs I want to know yes

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$2,600 us you get the base and you get a

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VR headset plus the controllers that's a lot but compared to a treadmill I feel

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or like a pelet that's it's like comparable yeah yeah as an exercise

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machine it's actually kind of sick yeah like I would buy this over at treadmill

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would I buy it no but you probably wouldn't buy one no would I spend the

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money on it probably not thanks for coming out and trying it yeah this is

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actually kind of fun now that a few staff have tried it we kind of see that

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even though they technically support short people all the way down to 44

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Maria had like a lot of issues with being dragged back by the arm even in

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the lightest support setting and that means that if you're close to the margins of who this supports then maybe

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this isn't exactly for you which is honestly a good question in its own

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right who is this for hardcore VR

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enthusiasts sure but I doubt that many would want to pay for the bundled

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headset and again you can't bring your own while I understand that the company

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is interested in making this easy to use I bet your VR enthusiasts wouldn't mind

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tinkering and the company plans on offering steamvr support but at this

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point it's unclear how well that will work work and how much support we'll see

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from Developers for this device specifically and even then the headset

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you do get is held back by the custom OS making the upside of the VR headset

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included comment a little bit less compelling I think the strongest

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argument for this is as a fitness machine there are lots of people who

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will spend thousands on equipment that they'll use maybe a handful of hours a

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week and if your biggest obstacle to improving your health at home is a lack

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of fun well this this could be a great solution did your Normie treadmill come

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with the VR headset I didn't think so it probably didn't even come with a segue

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years ago to see how it's progressed